Louie was just weeks old when he was separated from his mother and shipped to a seedy roadside zoo, where he was forced to be a prop for photo ops with gawking visitors. He was kept in complete isolation from other chimpanzees for the first several years of his life. Now, he and other chimpanzees have been hidden away in unknown conditions.
Musher Joshua Robbins’ 27th place finish in the cruel 2024 Iditarod has been vacated for violating a race rule prohibiting the use of drugs that may “suppress the signs of illness or injury” in dogs forced to run and other drugs or artificial means to drive dogs to perform beyond their natural abilities.
PETA’s “Stop Animal Testing” Challenge is live—which means your gift today will be matched, going twice as far to help end cruel experiments on monkeys, rabbits, dogs, mice, and other animals.
UGG is giving cruelty the boot with its latest footwear collection in collaboration with clothing label Collina Strada. Check out the animal-friendly, fashion-forward styles—then urge the company to go a step further.
Tests on animals are plagued by incompetence, and experimenters are blatantly negligent when it comes to basic animal welfare standards. But it might make your heart skip a beat to know that in 200 labs across the U.S., experimenters are also responsible for ensuring that deadly pathogens don’t escape.
Betty has been forced to endure agonizing pain. Viola has attempted to escape from her abusers on multiple occasions. It’s quite obvious that these elephants are being abused.
Thanks to compassionate PETA supporters like you, Hai Hospitality has removed foie gras—which is made by force-feeding ducks until their livers bloat, then slaughtering them—from its restaurants’ menus.
A viral thread on X reveals the trauma faced by up-and-coming scientists who are forced to experiment on and kill mice and other animals for a degree, a paper, or a job.
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If you think you’ve heard it all after watching Chimp Crazy, you need to listen to this whistleblower’s story. Angela Scott shares what she saw and what made her turn to PETA. Listen on PETA.org, or click below to hear the episode on iTunes.
Chimpanzees share approximately 95% of their DNA with humans. Old research reported this percentage as 98%, but a study in 2002 showed that a 5% divergence is more accurate. Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than they are to gorillas.
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